Getting people out of unemployment: A spatial perspective across Auckland

Don Webber and Gail Pacheco

No 1008, Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol

Abstract: Reducing the unemployment rate is an aim of most governing authorities. This paper presents a socio-economic analysis of area-level employment rate changes across Auckland using Census area-level data for the time period 1996 to 2006. Exploratory spatial data analyses suggest the presence of strong spatial patterns in intra-city employment rates changes. Application of seemingly unrelated regressions highlight forces, such as education, that are associated with increases in part time and full time employment relative to being unemployed.

Keywords: Unemployment; Seemingly unrelated regressions; Queen spatial weights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 E24 J21 R20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2010-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-lab and nep-ure
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